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Do you truly believe that life is fair, Senor de la Vega? -No, maestro, but I plan to do everything in my power to make it so.
Isabel Allende
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Isabel Allende
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: August 2
Journalist
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City of the Kings
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His calls for justice were lost at the mercy of the wind and human indifference.
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He was not oppressed by a crowd because in the midst of all the hullabaloo he always found a quiet place for his soul.
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fiction happens in the belly, it doesn't happen in the brain.
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Giving women education, work, the ability to control their own income, inherit and own property, benefits the society. If a woman is empowered, her children and her family will be better off. If families prosper, the village prospers, and eventually so does the whole country.
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In my private circle I am a mother, grandmother, wife, friend, daughter... the success means nothing to my small tribe.
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My son, the Holy Church is on the right, but Jesus Christ was always on the left.
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The one that came really easy was the Japanese lover, because he's like a ghost in the book. He's always in the background like a spirit, like a shadow, almost. There's a very delicate line there.
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Heroism is a badly remunerated occupation, and often it leads to an early end, which is why it appeals to fanatics or persons with an unhealthy fascination with death.
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The fear is not real, Dil Bahadur it is only in your mind, like all other things. Our thoughts form what we believe to be reality.
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Silence before being born, silence after death: life is nothing but noise between two unfathomable silences.
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